In 15 weeks Kamala's $1,500,000,000 war chest wasn't just going to spend itself. And I wonder what the actual cost of the salads was including delivery and grifting.

He said he would impose a 25% tax on all products entering the country from Canada and Mexico, and an additional 10% tariff on goods from China, as one of his first executive orders.

For me the scariest thing is that if he did that or even half of that - it would damage the economy but - of course - he will escape blame by the republicans. And many independents too? He'll spew hateful/toxic lies and create scapegoats (for example - "globalists") and a large percentage of Americans will believe him or sort of believe him or pretend to believe him.

There is nothing these fuckers will not try to spin...

“There is not a single expenditure in a different spot that would have changed the outcome of the race,” said Bakari Sellers, a close ally of Ms. Harris and a former lawmaker in South Carolina. In fact, Mr. Sellers said, the campaign faced an unusual problem: “We had so much money it was hard to get it out the door.”

$200,000 for 15 weeks (at most) is a pretty sweet gig...

Some media allies of Ms. Harris were also paid. Areva Martin, who hosts a talk show, was paid $200,000 as a media consultant, and she went on a battleground-state tour in October.

Look at this "unanswered question"...

One of the unanswered questions is who exactly made money off the commissions on Ms. Harris’s advertising, which can be especially lucrative. Such payments are often hidden even in federal disclosures.

In 2020, for instance, Mike Donilon, who was one of Mr. Biden’s top strategists, reported on his personal financial disclosure form with the White House that his consultancy had earned $4.35 million in 2020, far more than the roughly $543,000 disclosed to the Federal Election Commission in payments to his firm.

Numerous firms could have netted big commissions from the Harris campaign. Four companies received at least $90 million in payments as of mid-October, including one firm whose cumulative receipts from the Harris campaign approached $300 million.

"Push for" literally made me laugh out loud...

In a note on Friday to Ms. Harris’s top fund-raisers, Chris Korge, the Democratic National Committee’s finance chair, said that losing all seven battleground states had “shocked us all.”

“I will absolutely push for an introspective study and analysis of the campaign, its structure, its messaging, all communication platforms and budgeting,” Mr. Korge wrote.

~~60 Minutes could have done America a favor and cribbed notes from that episode.~~

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I fucking hate both sides-ism. I can do better...

60 Minutes could have done America a favor. They could have redone the Citations Needed episode word-for-word with video presented by Adam and Nima.

"The teleprompter guy is worried but I gotta say something else. New thing because today is my inauguration for the second time on tv. It should be the third time but only second time on tv. Now - new branding. Much better. No more elephant. Republican symbol is the Flathead. The Flathead - strong and powerful. Best. The Phillips bad. Designed by Bad Holland Communists to break and destroy America like the democrats. They wanna screw you. They do. They do..."

I thought that project took the bag and ran years ago

Before today I don't remember the last time I looked at the Wikipedia page. About a year ago? Anyway - at that time the page was pretty snarky for Wikipedia. It had stuff like... to date the university remains unaccredited -and- the university has no formal campus. Right-wingers must have been annoyed but what could they do? The comments were accurate and acceptable.

Now right-wing editors have tried to make the uni seem like an actual university.

University of Austin

[Photo]
The Scarborough Building in Austin, the current home of UATX

The University of Austin (UATX) is a private liberal arts university located in Austin, Texas. The university has established a campus in downtown Austin's Scarbrough Building, and enrolled its first undergraduate cohort in the fall of 2024.

UATX is not accredited, and its students are not eligible for Federal Student Aid. However, it is approved to grant bachelor’s degrees by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The founding class has been offered free tuition.

It's very useful to show an actual building as a form of misdirection and PR. The page is still funny if you parse it carefully. "The university has established a campus [in a] building," which surely means they rent a floor or two and that's the entire "campus" of their "university". By square footage I'd bet it's about a 1/10th (if not far smaller) than the size of the average community college in Texas.

Rainman starts counting a visual representation of the vote where each vote is a toothpick. He begins counting Kamala's 74,563,603 votes but he suddenly stops at 8,713 and he starts yelling - "TOO MANY! TOO MANY! NO NO! UNDERWEAR ON THE HIGHWAY..."

Look, the keys are still good and it's the locks that are wrong - if your spouse throws you out of the house and changes the locks because America is shacking up with Trump.

"That's not the proper procedure,"

Libs can really go off the deep end about procedure. It's so sad. Self-aggrandizement link - this my comment - https://hexbear.net/comment/5666718

ta;dc (too annoying; didn't click) - The Bluesky OP says...

Donald Trump cannot take any oath of office until he is granted amnesty for breaking the last one he swore. That’s just straight up in the Constitution. 2/3 of each House.

And they are full BlueAnon. They're going to post about this every day.

I’m going to be reposting my thread about Trump and Section 3 amnesty every day with quotes, evidence, and a call to action everyday because it is that important...

I forgot all about that guy and his keys! I googled.

'I admit I was wrong': Allan Lichtman explains why his election prediction failed

• Lichtman attributed the inaccurate prediction to factors like disdain for the Biden administration and Harris' late campaign start.

• Despite the miss, Lichtman stands by his "13 Keys to the White House" system, emphasizing its long-term accuracy.

• He also criticized Nate Silver's polling-based prediction model, suggesting it relied heavily on chance.

Buy my book! It will help you predict a coin flip. Perhaps wrongly but still...!

This made me laugh.

"I don't think I called any (keys) wrong," Lichtman said. "The contest key was rendered problematic by what went on by the Democratic Party but I don't think you can say I called it wrong except for in retrospect. At the time it was the more reasonable call."

I'm stealing "render problematic" and "[My logic was not wrong]" and "I don't think you can say I called it wrong except [in] retrospect".

Then do something?

I just realized that post-election - I haven't seen a single Bluesky post about any nuts-and-bolts efforts on stuff like voter outreach or voter registration. The libs entire worldview is ya gotta Vote(!) and then after the election - email your congresspeople to "keep the pressure on". It's going to be pretty funny when DC libs start strategically doing their norm of compromising in advance and doing nothing of importance to throw sand in the gears. And no amount of email is going to change that.

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Hell, libs could even post about improving reading comprehension and literacy to serve as a bulwark for democracy. The average American reads at a sixth grade level. But libs would rather repost something from The Bulwark which is a right-wing concern troll site co-created by Bill Fucking Kristol.

Bluesky libs have a "He didn't get 50%!" fetish. I wish Trump was holding steady at 50.1% so the libs would finally shut up about this.

Usually usually they do screengrabs of this page. - https://www.cookpolitical.com/vote-tracker/2024/electoral-college - current stats...

Trump: 49.86%
Harris: 48.26%